Improved illuminating apparatus



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Illuminating Apparatus.

Patented July 10', 1866.

No. 56,203. i

N PETERS, Pholo-Lrlhonphor. Washinglon. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT @TFTcn.

CHARLES GEISSE, OF TAYGHEEDAIEI, WISCONSIN.

. lM PROVED lLL UMlNATl-NG APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56.203. dated July 10.1866.

and Improved Illuminating Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a verticalsection of the apparatus when applied to illuminating a house. Fig. 2 isa view of the same from beneath the apparatus.

Like letters in all the figures indicate the same parts.

The nature of my invention mainly consists in combining and arranging astationary reservoir for inflammable oil or 0th ercombustible fluid forilluminating purposes by means of pipes with one or more burners in allthe places to be lighted substantially as follows:

I place a reservoir for containing the combustible fluid permanently inan elevated position in the building to be lighted, or in any convenientplace outside of said building, if desired. It is above all the pointsof combustion, so that the fluid, by means of its specific gravity, maybe conveyed thereto by means of pipes, and it is so far laterallydistant from the burners as to prevent accident from the action of thesame. To the said reservoir I connect, in any convenient manner, theupper end of the main pipe A. To the said pipe I connect the branch pipeB and other pipes for supplying, respectively, the different burnerswith the combustible material in all places to be lighted.

0 represents one of the burners. I would only use this form of burnerWhere a large amount of light is required; otherwise I would use anordinary burner. The said burner O is supported by the branch pipe B,which supplies it with fluid that passes through the vertical end a, ofthe pipe, as seen in Fig. 2, and runs down the outer periphery of thesame in sufficient quantity on the bottom plate of the burner O to beconverted into gas, as hereinafter described, for the supply of the saidburner.

The burner is provided with a central tube, D, which serves the doublepurpose of an airpassage through the central opening, d, and to form anannular space, 0, between its upper and conical-end, d, and the innerperiphery of the bell-shaped cap 0 of the burner, the said space beingenlarged or contracted, or entirely closed, by means of the screw f onthe lower end of the tube, which fits in the i'emale screw 9 in thebottom h of the burner. Through the said annular space 0 the gas flows.as it is generated, as hereinafter described, the space being enlargedor contracted, as may be required, to modify the combustion by means ofthe conical end of the central tube, D, as the said tube is elevated ordepressed by means of the screw f, as above described.

E is a branch pipe, which is connected with the main pipe A, or whichmay be affixed to any other branch pipe in connection therewith by meansof the sliding socket i, there being one or more openings for thetransmission of the fluid from the pipe A into the branch pipe or pipesin connection therewith. When the said openings are not covered by thesockets t" of the branch pipes, loose sockets j may be brought intorequisition. The pipe E is provided with a burner, m. n is the wick, andn the flame issuing therefrom.

The oil or other fluid, as it supplies the different burners, percolatesthrough cotton or other media, Z, placed in the main pipe A, asrepresented in Fig. 1, the cotton being sufficiently packed or insufficient quantity to prevent a too rapid percolation of the fluid forthe requisite supply to the burners. The said branch pipe E, when anordinary light is wanted, is placed in connection with one of the moreelevated openings in the main pipe A, as represented at the point 2 butwhen the burner O is to be used the combustion is started by means ofthe burner m on the said pipe, which is then in connection with thelowest opening at the point 1. The heat of the said burner, acting uponthe bottom h of the burner O as the fluid gradually runs from the monthend a of the branch pipe B on the inner face of said bottom plate,generates it into gas, which, being lighted at the annular opening orspace 0, continues to burn for illuminating the room in which the burneris situated.

When the combustion is fairly started the body of the burner 0 becomessufliciently heated to generate a snfiicient amount of gas to supply thecombustion, and then the use of the burner m on the branch pipe E isdispensed with. The globular radiator F, attached to the upper end ofthe.rod k, which is connected at its lower end to the central tube, D,assists in the generation of the gas, the heat from the radiator beingthrown upon the cap-piece 0 of the burner. The combustion of the gas inthe burner assists the percolation of the fluid through the media in.the pipe A by creating a partial vacuum in the burner.

Other like branch pipes, similarly arranged as the pipe E, may besimultaneously used at.

variable altitudes and positions. The sockets i j may be provided withindia-rubber or other packing when required.

G is a portion of a pipe for conveying vapor or gas from the interior ofthe burner O to another burner in another room in the building or toanotherpart of the same room. There may be supplementary branch pipesarranged on the lateral branch pipes above described, which may also beprovided with sliding sockets i, and in connection with the said pipesthere should be loose sliding sockets j, the arran gement of the saidpipes and sockets being similar to that of the branch pipes and socketson the main pipe A, as above described.

H is a stop-cock on the main pipe A. The said cock is used to graduatethe amount of oil to be transmitted from the reservoir to one or moreburners in connection with said pipe,

or to entirely close the communication with the reservoir when theburners are not in use. The said cock is situated above all the openingsin the main pipe A which communicate with the branch pipes.

Having thus fully described my illuminating apparatus, what I claimtherein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination and arrangement of the central tube, D, with theburner O, substantially in the manner described, and for the purpose setforth.

2. Combining and arranging the movable branch pipe E with the burner O,for starting the generation of gas in the latter, substantially asdescribed. 7 I

3. Thesliding sockets tj, arranged and operating substantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

4. The combination and arrangement of the globular radiator F with thecentral tube, D, substantially in the manner described, and for thepurpose set forth.

5. The combination of the pipe G with the burner G, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

In testimony that the above is my invention I have hereunto set my handand affixed my seal this 1st day of July, 1865.

CHARLES GEISSE. IL. s.]

Witnesses:

STEPHEN Us'rIcK, JOHN WHITE.

